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Although many of Watertown's Armenian residents say they are concerned with preserving their culture, this attitude has not always prevailed...
...Armenians began to emigrate to America in large numbers in the early part of this century. Poverty forced them to abandon some aspects of their own culture in favor of American traditions, according to James R. Russell, Mashtots professor of Armenian studies at Harvard...
...James at least, the children and parents chatted with each other in Armenian...
...first major wave of Armenian immigration began in 1906 and was fostered by the Ottoman Turks' discriminatory and eventually genocidal policies...
...Many Armenian immigrants settled in Boston, where they were employed in blue-collar jobs...